HFE
This page contains an overview of the genetic variation in the HFE gene, including its role in inherited cardiac disease. For more details, click on the links below, or for a specific variant, enter the HGVS variant here:
HFE gene and transcript details
Gene Name
hemochromatosis
Gene Links
Ensembl: ENSG00000010704 -
Locus Reference Genomic:
Genomic Location
Chromosome 6 : 26,087,669 - 26,094,454 (forward strand)
View in: Ensembl -
UCSC Genome Browser
| Canonical Seqs | Transcript (1044 bases) | Protein (348 aa) |
|---|---|---|
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ENST00000357618 | ENSP00000417404 |
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NM_000410.3 | |
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Q30201 |
Summary of HFE in Cardiomyopathies
HFE variants in ExAC
Details of the protein-altering HFE variants (missense, loss of function truncating, inframe indels and splice site regions) found in the ExAC database are shown below. To view lists of specific variants with links to detailed population frequency data, click on the variant numbers - for all or a particular variant class.
| Total Variants | Combined frequency of rare variants | |
|---|---|---|
| All Variants | 141 | 0.00201 |
| Truncating | 17 | 0.00026 |
| Missense | 116 | 0.00166 |
| Inframe | 2 | 0.00006 |
| Splice Site | 6 | 0.00003 |